Perspectives on contemporary literature. Volume 14, 1988, Literature & the Historical Process.

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Cover; Contents; Copyright; To Purge Auschwitz: The Poets' View; Ghelderode's Use of History in Christophe Colomb; Alienation and Form in Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy; Reimagining the Arts of War: Language and History in Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day and Rose Macaulay's The World My Wilderness; Nature, History, and Art in Elizabeth Bishop's ""Brazil, January 1, 1502""; From a Far Country: History, Myth, and Fiction in Anthony Burgess's The Malayan Trilogy; The Historical Context of Yeats's Byzantium.

The Officer-Figure Aestheticized: Some Biographical Speculations on Hofmannsthal's ""Reitergeschichte""II ruolo della politica nel canzoniere di Pavese Lavorare Stanca; Clinging to Words: Czeslaw Milosz and the Catastrophist Era; ""El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan"": un cuento de Ia guerra; Ghosts of the Past: The Return of Maximilian and Carlotta in Two Contemporary Mexican Short Stories; El rescate de Ia historia / intrahistoria salvadorena en Un día en la vida de Manlio Argueta.

In all parts of the world and in every age, many of the greatest works of literature have been shaped or inspired by the swirl of historical events. The wars, holocausts, and mushroom clouds of our own era haunt the pages of many twentieth-century writers; events of the past, even the remote past, also inspire many authors, though their work is contemporary in every way. And if we agree with the poet Czeslaw Milosz that ""historicity may reveal itself in a detail of architecture, in the shaping of a landscape, "" we come to recognize that our understanding of a given poem or novel can often be.

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